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April 9, 2010 at 11:56am

By Dallas

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Topics: Fame, hip-hop, Music, Pop Culture

THOUGHTS: Dr. Dre’s Ready To DETOX, M.I.A.’s Not Impressed With Gaga, and Rihanna’s Hitting The Road

Earlier this week, legendary producer Dr. Dre officially announced his intentions to release his long-awaited 3rd and (allegedly) final album, the now-mythical Detox, in 2010. Of course, we’ve heard this shit before; every year since 2007 or so has been the year Detox would finally see a release, and each time it never materialized. [...]

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April 2, 2010 at 12:03pm

By Dallas

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Topics: Drugs, Fame, hip-hop, Love, Media, Music, Pop Culture, Women

WHAT THE F@%! HAPPENED!? (PT. III): Amy Winehouse

Winehouse was touted as a world class vocalist, a supremely gifted songwriter, and a certified game-changer within the landscape of popular music. And then everything went wrong. Very wrong.

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March 19, 2010 at 12:17pm

By Dallas

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Topics: Fame, hip-hop, Masculinity, Media, Men, Music, Pop Culture

WHAT THE F@%! HAPPENED?! (PT. II): D’Angelo

By the end of 2000, D’Angelo was without question THE man, receiving commercial and critical success, and thus free to go in any direction he wanted artistically. And then he disappeared.

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March 12, 2010 at 1:12pm

By Dallas

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Topics: Fame, hip-hop, Lauryn Hill, Music, Pop Culture, Women

What The F@%! Happened?!: LAURYN HILL

At the tender age of 23, and just one album into her solo career, Lauryn Hill was catapulted unexpectedly into mega-stardom, and looked upon with an almost divine level of adoration and respect. Clearly, Hill was not ready for it….

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February 26, 2010 at 1:00pm

By Dallas

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Topics: Empowerment, hip-hop, Imperialism, Music, Nneka, Poetry, Politics, Pop Culture, The Post-colonial world

NNEKA’S “CONCRETE JUNGLE”: Addictive, powerful, life-affirming, and incredibly necessary…

Concrete Jungle stuns, inspires and enthralls from beginning to end, and confirms without question that Nneka has the potential to be among the most vital and fascinating voices of pop music in the years to come. Believe the hype.

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February 19, 2010 at 7:50am

By Fallon

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Topics: hip-hop, Nicki Minaj, Women

Why I like Nicki Minaj: No Haters Allowed!!!

So, this last Halloween I dressed up as . . . . (drum roll please) . . . Nicki Minaj also known as Nicki Lewinski also known as Nicki the Ninja also known as Nicki the Harajuku Barbi. (Yep, if you leave a comment requesting my Halloween picture I may post it). Yes, I, the [...]

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February 12, 2010 at 12:49pm

By Dallas

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Topics: Beyonce, hip-hop, Music, Pop Culture

NO PASSENGERS ON HER PLANE:How and why Beyonce owned the 2000′s….

Since embarking on a solo career in 2003, Beyonce has completely mastered an intoxicating mixture of R&B and Hip Hop that redefined Pop music in the 2000s, her live performances continue to stun audiences around the world, and her fierce protection of her private life from media scrutiny has allowed her to cultivate a largely blemish-less superstar status. All things considered, Beyonce is clearly the greatest and most influential female pop artist of the 2000s.

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October 20, 2009 at 11:09am

By Summer M.

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Topics: hip-hop, Homophobia, LGBTQ, Masculinity, Media, Men, Pop Culture

Today in Post-Race History: No Homo

I’m having trouble embedding the video in question. Please view it here. Remember last year when all the white gay people were mad at black people because Prop 8 passed in California? Well, it wasn’t a fluke. We’re still their whipping boys (er, bois?). Last week, my internet boyfriend AC (again, the only man I’d [...]

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October 5, 2009 at 5:32pm

By tamara

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Topics: American Values, hip-hop

5 Star What??

A couple weeks ago, i had a friend visit and on the way home from a club, the song “Five Star Chic” came on the radio. As soon as we heard the first verse, we looked at one another, simultaneously amused and disgusted. She commented that a woman like the type described in the song [...]

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